Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
It is easy to rule over the good.
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.